Word: queretaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointing out that the number of priests in the Federal District has been reduced to 25 and eliminated entirely in the States of Tabasco, Zacatecas, Sonora, Chiapas, Vera Cruz, Campechi and Queretaro, the U.S. prelates charged that the churches, schools and dwellings of their Mexican fellows have been expropriated. Denied to all Catholics are the rights of free assembly, free press and free worship and to the clergy, in addition, the right of franchise and even the solace of religious life. Since foreign clergymen are outlawed and native Mexicans prohibited from studying for the priesthood, the Mexican priesthood would soon...
...cite these facts only to persuade you that the Mexican Government in establishing a peso wage is performing a greater good than you think. I was offered an hacienda in the State of Queretaro only last year, agricultural workers included, with the understanding I need pay the more skilled workers 60 centavos a day, the unskilled only 40. And I dare say even these would top some of the sweatshop paychecks in depression New York. MARION LAY Mexico City...